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The Future of Energy Use (Paperback, 2nd edition): Phil O'Keefe, Nicola Pearsall, Geoff O'Brien The Future of Energy Use (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Phil O'Keefe, Nicola Pearsall, Geoff O'Brien
R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Following the success of its predecessor, this second edition of The Future of Energy Use provides essential analysis of the use of different forms of energy and their environmental and social impacts. It examines conventional, nuclear and renewable sources and technologies, using relevant case studies and providing a vital link between technology and related policy issues. The new edition has been comprehensively developed and updated, including new text, diagrams and tables, with entire new sections that reflect the significant changes that have occurred since the first edition. New material includes: a stronger focus on climate change policy and energy security; a discussion of the long run marginal costs of oil; coverage of the biofuels debate in both the developed and developing worlds; an outline of developments in the built environment (including transport issues); and the relationship between behaviour and energy use. It reviews policy shifts with relation to energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage, combined heat and power, and combined cycle gas turbines. There is new coverage of nuclear waste, storage and proliferation, and new material on microgeneration and biofuels, as well as essential new information on carbon markets and the hydrogen economy. The result is a unique introduction and guide to all the vital issues within energy for students, academics and professionals new to the field.

Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk - Beyond Fragmented Responses (Hardcover, New): Geoff O'Brien, Phil O'Keefe Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk - Beyond Fragmented Responses (Hardcover, New)
Geoff O'Brien, Phil O'Keefe
R3,984 Discovery Miles 39 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Climate change is the single largest threat to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and sustainable development. Addressing climate risk is a challenge for all. This book calls for greater collaboration between climate communities and disaster development communities. In discussing this, the book will evaluate the approaches used by each community to reduce the adverse effects of climate change. One area that offers some promise for bringing together these communities is through the concept of resilience. This term is increasingly used in each community to describe a process that embeds capacity to respond to and cope with disruptive events. This emphasizes an approach that is more focused on pre-event planning and using strategies to build resilience to hazards in an adaptation framework. The book will conclude by evaluating the scope for a holistic approach where these communities can effectively contribute to building communities that are resilient to climate driven risks.

Cities Demanding the Earth - A New Understanding of the Climate Emergency (Hardcover): Peter Taylor, Geoff O'Brien, Phil... Cities Demanding the Earth - A New Understanding of the Climate Emergency (Hardcover)
Peter Taylor, Geoff O'Brien, Phil O'Keefe
R2,061 Discovery Miles 20 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This urgent book brings our cities to the fore in understanding the human input into climate change. The demands we are making on nature by living in cities has reached a crisis point and unless we make significant changes to address it, the prognosis is terminal consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption and pose the challenge of urban stewardship to tackle the crisis. Their new way of thinking re-orients possibilities for environmental policy and calls for us to reinvent our cities as spaces for activism.

Cities Demanding the Earth - A New Understanding of the Climate Emergency (Paperback): Peter Taylor, Geoff O'Brien, Phil... Cities Demanding the Earth - A New Understanding of the Climate Emergency (Paperback)
Peter Taylor, Geoff O'Brien, Phil O'Keefe
R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This urgent book brings our cities to the fore in understanding the human input into climate change. The demands we are making on nature by living in cities has reached a crisis point and unless we make significant changes to address it, the prognosis is terminal consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption and pose the challenge of urban stewardship to tackle the crisis. Their new way of thinking re-orients possibilities for environmental policy and calls for us to reinvent our cities as spaces for activism.

Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk - Beyond Fragmented Responses (Paperback): Geoff O'Brien, Phil O'Keefe Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk - Beyond Fragmented Responses (Paperback)
Geoff O'Brien, Phil O'Keefe
R1,356 Discovery Miles 13 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Climate change is the single largest threat to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and sustainable development. Addressing climate risk is a challenge for all. This book calls for greater collaboration between climate communities and disaster development communities. In discussing this, the book will evaluate the approaches used by each community to reduce the adverse effects of climate change. One area that offers some promise for bringing together these communities is through the concept of resilience. This term is increasingly used in each community to describe a process that embeds capacity to respond to and cope with disruptive events. This emphasizes an approach that is more focused on pre-event planning and using strategies to build resilience to hazards in an adaptation framework. The book will conclude by evaluating the scope for a holistic approach where these communities can effectively contribute to building communities that are resilient to climate driven risks.

Siren Plays Zeperno (Paperback): Geoff O'Brien Siren Plays Zeperno (Paperback)
Geoff O'Brien
R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Adaptation Continuum (Paperback): Geoff O'Brien, Tahia Devisscher, Phil O'Keefe The Adaptation Continuum (Paperback)
Geoff O'Brien, Tahia Devisscher, Phil O'Keefe
R1,984 Discovery Miles 19 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Adapting to the consequences accelerated climate change and increasing variability is a huge challenge, particularly for poorer countries. This book reports on research with 14 developing countries on climate adaptation. It finds that there is an urgent need to build the resilience of communities to ensure that they can respond to, and cope with, climatic disturbances. We can no longer separate risk and development. We need holistic and continuing approaches to adapting to climate change.

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